Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 435 



Professor Barboza uu Bocage sent for exhibition the skin 

 of an apparently new species of Bradyornis, which he had 

 received from Galanga in Angola. He proposed to call it 



Bradyornis sharpii, sp. n. 

 Similis B. boehyni, Reichenow^ sed rostro nigro^ mandibula 

 hand flavida, et pileo chocolatino concolorc, nee griseo : 

 fascia cervicali grisescente nulla. Long. tot. 5'6 poll., 

 alte 3-2. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe laid upon the table the first two 

 livraisons of Fatio and Studer^s ' Catalogue des Oiseaux de 

 la Suisse/ and pointed out the useful work that could be 

 done by any English ornithologist who devoted himself to 

 working out the ranges of British Birds in the same manner 

 as had been done by these Swiss naturalists. The maps 

 showing the distribution of each species in Switzerland formed 

 a distinct feature, which. Dr. Sharpe believed, could be in- 

 troduced with advantage in a general work on the geo- 

 graphical distribution of British Birds. 



XL. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



50. BUttikofer on Birds from Celebes, Saleyer, and Flores. 



[Ornithologische Sammlangen aus Celebes, Saleyer und Flores. Von 

 J. Biittikofer. Zool. Ergebnisse einer Reise in Nederl. Ost-Indieu, 

 Band iii. p. 269.] 



In this article Mr. Biittikofer gives an account of the 

 birds collected by Prof. Weber during his East-Indian journey 

 in 1888 and 1889, and deposited in the Leyden Museum. 

 They come mostly from the islands of Celebes, Saleyer, and 

 Flores. In Celebes examples of 97 species were obtained, of 

 which two are new to the Celebean avifauna. In Saleyer, 

 an island south of Celebes, not previously visited by any 

 naturalist, 22 specimens of birds were collected, which arc 

 referred to 14 species. These are mostly of Celebean origin, 

 but Saleyer has also some connection, not with Flores, as 

 might have been expected, but with the Timor group, as 



